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...usually puts in ten-hour days on the job. When the work piles up, he sometimes sleeps in a bedroom that is part of his twelfth-floor office suite. All major questions, suggestions, ideas and issues are brought to him for approval. He has approved that symbol of corporate blunder, the Edsel, as well as the Mustang and Maverick, two of the bestselling new U.S. cars of recent years. Those cars have given Ford Motor the reputation of being the innovator in the industry. The chairman watches everything. Once an executive recommended that the company spend $20 million...
...worst toll of civilians since the 1967 war, and its aftereffects are likely to be felt for a long time by all the powers concerned, including the U.S. and the Soviet Union. On Israel's part, it was a dangerous move, at best a major blunder. Despite continued Arab attacks, the raid made Israel seem increasingly aggressive and intransigent at a time when it is seeking additional U.S. arms...
Withro's other blunder over the summer was the poor production of the HarBus franchise of the Student Handbook put out for first-year students. Besides being three weeks late and thereby antagonizing advertisers, the Handbook was printed up very sloppily. The most apparent error is a hole punched on the front cover which no one has been able to explain, not to mention the pages which were photographed lopsided and the smeared and misshapen corners of the photographic plates. To make matters worse for Withro, he had billed the HarBus for the number of hours he worked...
...candidate. Marchi, however, was unable to stay true to the pattern he had set for himself. First he made the mistake of calling Jacob Javits a "pompous, posturing ass"-which many Lindsay workers found doubly satisfying, since they were pleased to see Marchi pull such an obviously foolish blunder, and since secretly they may have agreed with Marchi's estimate. Marchi himself had to admit he had tarnished his image as "the Perry Como of politics." And then came M-Day with the Staten Islander revealing himself in no uncertain terms, accusing Lindsay of having stuck a dagger into...
...title of a much-cited article, James Thomson has asked, "How Could Vietnam Happen?" He gives several answers: by how many other men have given many more. Was Vietnam only the ghastly blunder of one man, Lyndon Johnson, an accidental war by an accidental President, and, if John Kennedy had lived, would 40,000 Americans and 400,000 Vietnamese have lived also? Or is Vietnam something more...